The Use and Significance of Schematic Figures in Pope's \
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Published on 2007 by ProQuest
This thesis argues that the schematic figures which appear in An Essay on Man are significant because they form propositions rather than holistic images or symbols. Schematic figures, such as antithesis, are defined in distinction to representative figures, such as metaphor and allegory. Representative figures relate terms to one another according to a relatively simple model of predication, where one term may replace or be equated to another term. Schematic figures depend on relations between words which go beyond identity or simple comparison. A historical basis is found for this distinction. In the early eighteenth century a critical consensus emerged that metaphor and allegory, though aesthetically powerful, were untrustworthy in their ability to convey meaning. This belief was connected to the concern that language could not create true analogies between concepts available to man's limited experience and those concepts which were \
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